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| 1880 || Helen Keller biography || {{w|Helen Keller}} is born on June 27 in {{w|Tuscumbia, Alabama}}.<ref name="Helen Kellerbio">{{cite web |title=Helen Keller |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Keller |website=britannica.com |accessdate=17 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 1882 || Helen Keller biography || At the age of 19 months, {{w|Helen Keller }} is afflicted with an illness (possibly {{w|scarlet fever}}) that leaves her blind and deaf.<ref name="Helen Kellerbio"/> |-| 1913 || Helen Keller biography || {{w|Helen Keller}} begins lecturing (with the aid of an interpreter), primarily on behalf of the American Foundation for the Blind.<ref name="Helen Kellerbio"/>
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| 1915 || || American merchant and {{w|RMS Lusitania}} survivor George Kessler and his wife, Cora Parsons Kessler, organize in {{w|Paris}} the British, French, and Belgian Permanent Relief War Fund. As a survivor, and vowing to help veterans in some way, George Kessler eventually settles on helping those blinded in the war. He then recruits author and lecturer {{w|Helen Keller}}.<ref name="Helen Keller International"/><ref name="HKI"/>
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| 1919 || || George Kessler, Cora Parsons Kessler, and {{w|Helen Keller}} form an American branch of the Permanent Relief War Fund called the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for Soldiers and Sailors of the Allies, which is incorporated in {{w|New York City}}, with Keller and Cora Parsons Kessler as trustees.<ref name="Helen Keller International"/>
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| 1920 || || {{w|Helen Keller}} cofounds the {{w|American Civil Liberties Union}} with American civil rights activist {{w|Roger Nash Baldwin}} and others.<ref name="Helen Kellerbio"/>
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| 1920 || || George Kessler dies and is succeeded by New York lawyer William Nelson Cromwell, co-founder of Sullivan & Cromwell, an international law firm headquartered in {{w|New York City}}.<ref name="Our History"/>
